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I was going to agree with you, but I've just double-checked, and you CAN access video content on the BBC sites on a desktop (MacOS X Safari) by setting your Use

I was going to agree with you, but I've just double-checked, and you CAN access video content on the BBC sites on a desktop (MacOS X Safari) by setting your User-Agent to iPad. However, it's important that you've removed Flash completely from your system (using Flash Uninstaller), rather than just disable Flash (hoping to use Click-To-Flash). For some reason, they detect Flash by some kind of file-path-detection code...

joosters 11y ago
That's irritating! I'll have to take a closer look at what they are doing, as I'd like to keep flash around on a click-to-run basis. I'm surprised that websites can do any kind of file path detection on a client...
reagency 11y ago
What horrible browser lets a website inspect the filesystem without permission?
- elktea 11y ago
  Browsers give away far too much information: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/